Cape Fear Life Enhancement Services

02/02/2026

Cape Fear Life Enhancement Services is now hiring Employment Specialists to work in our organization. We are looking for dedicated and compassionate individuals to join our team across North Carolina. These roles start at $17 per hour and are available to both full-time and part-time candidates. We are currently hiring in New Hanover, Jacksonville, Durham, Greensboro/Alamance, Lexington/Davidson, and Winston Salem.
Our Employment Specialists strive to find the right opportunity for long term employment by focusing on participant strengths and abilities.

All employees enjoy a range of valuable benefits, including:
401(k) retirement plan
Paid training
Mileage reimbursement
Supplemental Insurance options
Full-time employees receive additional benefits including:
Holiday pay
Paid Time Off (PTO)
Medical and dental insurance
Life insurance
For more information about this opportunity or to apply, please contact us at:
(910) 251-2555 or [email protected]

01/22/2026

Cape Fear Life Enhancement Services is excited to announce openings for Direct Support Professional positions in Wilmington, NC. New hires are eligible for a $1,000 sign-on bonus.
We are looking for dedicated and compassionate individuals to join our team. These roles offer an hourly wage of $16 and are available to both full-time and part-time candidates.

For more information about this opportunity or to apply, please contact us at: (910) 251-2555 or [email protected]

All employees enjoy a range of valuable benefits, including:
401(k) retirement plan
Paid training
Supplemental Insurance options
Full-time employees receive additional benefits including:
Holiday pay
Paid Time Off (PTO)
Medical and dental insurance
Life insurance

For more information about this opportunity or to apply, please contact us at:
(910) 251-2555 or [email protected]

08/25/2025

Cape Fear Life Enhancement Services, formerly Cape Fear Group Homes, is honored to have received a $180,000 grant from The Endowment. This funding, distributed over two years, will support the development and implementation of a new staff role aimed at addressing the pressing issue of staff turnover.

The piloted role of Integrated Education Coordinator is specifically designed to tackle the challenges faced by Direct Support Staff and Employment Specialists. The coordinator will foster connections with community resources and cultivate partnerships, ensuring that staff training addresses all aspects of work-life balance. These efforts are intended to make staff retention more sustainable and effective.
Anita Ford, Project Development Coordinator at Cape Fear Life Enhancement Services, prepared and submitted the grant application.

This initiative is made possible through the generosity of The Endowment, an organization whose mission is to promote health, education, safety, and economic opportunity for residents of New Hanover County.

Cape Fear Life Enhancement Services is a nonprofit committed to helping individuals achieve their fullest potential. Through personalized goal setting and skill-building programs, the organization provides Residential and Day Program Services to those it supports, enhancing their quality of life.

11/07/2024

We’re thrilled to share that our recent supervisor training was a huge success! Our supervisory team collaborated to deepen their understanding of supervisory styles, develop strategies to enhance hiring, training, and retaining practices, and cultivate leadership with confidence.
A big THANK YOU to everyone who attended and made this day impactful. We're excited and grateful for the positive impact these leaders bring to our teams. Here’s to continued success!

11/04/2024

In October Cape Fear Vocational Services Area Director, Sarah Bass, had the opportunity to attend the 2024 Assistive Technology Expo in Raleigh, NC. It was truly inspiring to see the technology that has been developed to assist people with various needs! There were all terrain mobility devices, smart medication dispensers with video capability, braille operated computers, screens that tracked eye movement to interact and everything in between. Knowing the technology available to those that we serve will help in deciding how best to foster independence.

10/30/2024

Hiring! Hiring! Hiring! Sign On Bonus!!!!!

We are currently looking to hire Employment Specialists in the following locations:

Statesville
Greensboro/Burlington
Winston Salem
Durham
Wilmington
Jacksonville
New Bern

We are also looking to hire Direct Support Professionals for our Group Homes at our Wilmington location.

If you would like to work in the Human Services field, please submit your resume to [email protected].

Check out our company page as well for more information about who we are, what we do, and our impact on communities at

Assisting individuals in becoming active community members through our person-centered programs. Residential and Occupational Programs.

06/17/2024

Cape Fear Group Home residents are currently playing in their spring season as The Mets. The Miracle Field at Olsen Park is the perfect place to spend time with

06/14/2024

We are proud to announce that Cape Fear Group Homes has just received a three year accreditation from CARF®. This organization is an independent, nonprofit accreditor of health and human services. This achievement means that we are committed to delivering the highest level of safe and effective services, ongoing performance improvement, and the satisfaction of all the people we serve!

05/29/2024

Sarah Bass, CFGH Area Director and Miranda Scheel, Employment Specialist had the opportunity to explain the advantages of supported employment to students at Carteret High School and local employers. Also in attendance were staff from the Morehead City, NC Vocational Rehabilitation office.

04/24/2024

Cape Fear Group Homes, Inc., is pleased to announce a $36,000 grant from the Board of Directors of Cape Fear Memorial Foundation. The grant provides for funds to help purchase a new minivan to support community outings for individuals or small groups. Currently, we have 3 large Transport Vans that allow up to 10 individuals to be transported at the same time. The new minivan will provide flexibility to better match vehicles to group size so individuals can access basic individual needs for community outings to specialized programming for skill-building. Anita V. Ford, Project Development Director for Cape Fear Group Homes says, "We are so grateful to the Cape Fear Memorial Foundation for this generous grant which adds to our vital transportation needs!"

Cape Fear Memorial Foundation is a private, non-operating foundation located in Wilmington, North Carolina. Its primary purpose is to serve the health and medical needs of the people of Southeastern North Carolina. It supports not-for-profit organizations providing health and medical services and health education.
https://www.cfmfdn.org/about/

03/27/2024

The Cape Fear Group Homes Day Program recently hosted our own Prom night because our participants missed out on "Night to Shine" held in February. Participants enjoyed dressing up and celebrating. Take a look at these happy prom-goers!

03/19/2024

Cape Fear Group Homes, Inc is thrilled to announce that we have been awarded a 2024 Landfall Foundation Grant. The Board of Directors has approved a Capital Grant for the Cape Fear Group Homes in the amount
of $27,000 to purchase new classroom furniture and to paint the Day Services building as part of ongoing efforts to remodel the facility. More specifically, the grant funds will be used to support the following capital improvement projects:
 to paint the interior of the 2500 sq. ft. space
 new furniture and equipment in the classrooms and vocational space.

Robert (Bob) Harootyan Chair, Capital Grants Committee says, "We believe that funding this project will help the Foundation fulfill its mission of promoting arts, education, and health and welfare in our community".

After a tour of our Day Services program, the check was presented by Mr. Harootyan, Executive Board Secretary, and John Earl, Executive Board Operations VP of the Landfall Foundation. Accepting were Ed Walsh, Executive Director, Anita Ford, CFGH Project Development Coordinator.

The Landfall Foundation was formed as a means for Landfall residents to thoughtfully and confidently extend support to greater Wilmington area non-profit organizations. Grants are awarded after our Grants Committee evaluates applications for projects and programs in the areas of the arts, education, health and welfare. This valuable contribution to smaller organizations, that are often underfunded, makes a major impact on the vital needs of our community.
For more information visit: www.landfallfoundation.org